‘A proctorial committee which will look into this and take view of the incident, we can't give you a time frame, the committee will look into the matter and decide what to do,’ Kumar told reporters.
BJP MP Maheish Girri wrote a letter to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and HRD minister Smriti Irani regarding the events that took place at JNU. He requested HRD Minister Irani to give direction to JNU VC to not conduct such events and while he asked the Home Minister to give directions to the Delhi Police Commissioner to file an FIR against organisers behind the event. Earlier, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice Chancellor M. Jagdish Kumar on Wednesday said a proctorial committee would look into the matter of violent clashes between two students groups last night after an argument over the capital punishment to Afzal Guru.
‘A proctorial committee which will look into this and take view of the incident, we can't give you a time frame, the committee will look into the matter and decide what to do,’ Kumar told reporters. The varsity witnessed violent clashes between two students groups last night over this programme following which the police personnel were deployed on duty to maintain the law and order situation in the campus. The students affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had also staged a protest outside the office of the Vice Chancellor today to vent their ire over a programme describing the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as ‘judicial killing’.
The incident was followed by the cultural evening organised at the Sabarmati Dhaba by ten students, who were earlier members of the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU). While the organisers originally got the permission to hold this event, it was withdrawn after the ABVP complained to the administration. The ABVP had called for a protest outside the 24’7 dhaba opposite the venue, against the ‘anti-national’ activity in the campus.
The ABVP has also demanded that the ten students behind the event must be rusticated with immediate effect.
Congress slams event
Meanwhile, Congress said no one should eulogise him as he was declared a terrorist by court and was hanged after a long-drawn judicial process. "UPA govt carried out Afzal Guru's sentence after due process for 13th Dec, 2001 Parliament attack. No one should eulogise him," party communication department chief Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter. Congress spokesperson RPN Singh said that a court had declared Guru a terrorist and the judgement was pronounced after giving him all the legal options available. "He was hanged as a terrorist. We cannot have anarchy in our universities... the hanging was after a long-drawn judicial process," the Congress spokesperson said.
With inputs from agencies
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